The executive branch is morally and legally obliged to “preserve, protect, and defend” the United States. The Biden administration neglected this duty in many ways, most egregiously by permitting, indeed helping, vast numbers of illegal immigrants cross into the U.S. over the southern border. The U.S. Center for Immigration Studies estimates 5.6 million immigrants illegally entered our country during his presidency, raising the number of illegal immigrants to 15.8 million. Former President Joe Biden even flew thousands in on special flights.
The result of Biden engineering this invasion is a national security nightmare. Overwhelmed enforcement agencies cannot trace, let alone contain, people released into the country. They came from cultures overtly hostile to the U.S. and Western civilization as a whole, and those people are now mixed undetected with our multiethnic and polyglot citizenry at shopping centers, in airports, and on highways. Social services are strained to breaking point, as resources meant for Americans are depleted, which foments unrest and difficulties in maintaining public order and safety.
This toxic combination of circumstances exploded in horrific fashion on Sunday on the picturesque Pearl Street walking mall in downtown Boulder, Colorado.
The terrorist, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian, arrived in the U.S. through Los Angeles International Airport on Aug. 27, 2022. He arrived with a non-immigrant visa that permitted him to stay until Feb. 26, 2023. He outstayed the visa and filed a claim with USCIS to stay and work. This was granted on March 29, 2023. This clearance lasted through March of this year.
His terrorist attack on peaceful demonstrators on Sunday would have been prevented by common sense and the enforcement of immigration laws. But Biden’s dereliction of duty and subversion of the “rule of law” and “norms” allowed people like Soliman in without proper vetting and let them operate undetected. Now the Trump administration must continue its work to restore safety and security by ramping up deportations in defiance of Democrat bleating on behalf of the country’s enemies.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller summed up the administration’s position tidily on X in the aftermath of the attack: “A terror attack was committed in Boulder, Colorado by an illegal alien. He was granted a tourist visa by the Biden Administration and then he illegally overstayed that visa. In response, the Biden Administration gave him a work permit. Suicidal migration must be fully reversed.”
The popular Democratic notion that deportations are inherently immoral and that ICE removing illegal immigrants amounts to “disappearing people” is utterly false. The deportation of people who should not be here is the enforcement of the Constitution and democracy, which became urgent after Biden opened the floodgates. It will take time and firm resolve to repair the Democrats’ damage.
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According to an affidavit, Soliman told law enforcement that he “wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead” and that he’d plotted the attack for a year. How many more Solimans are out there now, operating in American communities and awaiting opportunities to strike?
It is impossible to know. But Americans can rest a bit easier knowing that the Trump administration is hewing to its mission to return illegal immigrants to where they came from and to secure the border. The security threat of illegal immigration is real. Sunday was a painful reminder.
This article was originally published at www.washingtonexaminer.com
